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Snow in April
As I was driving to Dryden along Rt. 38 yesterday, I spotted the usual huge flock of Canada geese in the flooded George Jr. field. However, I also saw many white birds that I assumed, at first, to be gulls. After a closer look on the way back, I realized that the gulls looked remarkably like white geese with black markings and what I was actually seeing was a large flock of snow geese.
Henry's brother Ivan happened to be stopping by for a quick overnight visit and told us that there have been an unusual number of snow geese spotted in NJ this winter due to large amounts of available food. According to the Audubon Bird Book, eastern snow geese winter south of NY and are, in fact, the same species as the gray goose, found on the west coast.
Today, there were a group of people with very large, expensive looking cameras snapping pictures of the same flock.
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